The African swine fever was detected Tuesday evening in a fattening pig population with 4.038 animals near Güstrow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The exact source of the entry is not yet known. The control measures were initiated by the local authorities. This means that the animals must now be culled immediately and safely disposed of ...
With the start of the QS system, everyone involved made it their task to reduce the entry of salmonella in the meat and meat products production chain to a minimum. With success: the number of positive samples is continuously decreasing. The proportion of pig farms with a high salmonella risk has fallen from 5,8 percent in 2005 to 1,6 percent at the beginning of 2021 ...
The Belgian standard provider Belpork of the BePork seal of approval system has developed an animal welfare module for the Belgian pork industry. BePork guarantees high quality Belgian pork ...
Kaufland is now offering sausages made from straw pigs at selected service counters in North Rhine-Westphalia. The animals come from regional suppliers and are kept in level 3 outdoor climate ...
One reason why more and more people are foregoing meat, especially beef, is the methane emission into the atmosphere that occurs when cattle, sheep and goats digest green fodder. Since sheep and goats play a subordinate role economically compared to beef, research and politics in Germany are concentrating on beef fattening. The cattle in Germany emitted around 34,2 million tons of CO₂ equivalents (CO₂) in 2018 ...
Know what ends up in the shopping cart: In many surveys and consumer studies, the vast majority of consumers want information about where an animal product comes from, that it was produced without genetic engineering and that the animals are doing well. For this, product seals offer a decision-making aid ...
The Tierwohl Initiative (ITW) significantly expands the group of partner companies. The Bünting Group will convert entire ranges of turkey, chicken and pork to products that carry the seal of the Tierwohl initiative ...
The food retail sector is changing its meat range more and more towards animal welfare. In the cattle and pork sector as well as in the poultry sector, the products are to be gradually converted to higher animal welfare levels ...
The German poultry industry is presenting a plan for the future of how Germany can be further developed and strengthened as a business location through an even more sustainable and animal welfare-oriented poultry production ...
With immediate effect, Kaufland no longer offers fresh pork * that has been produced in accordance with the statutory minimum standard (level 1 husbandry). After the company switched poultry meat to level 2019 husbandry throughout Germany in 2, another big step is now following on the way to more sustainable standards in animal husbandry. "Our goal is to improve the conditions for keeping our livestock in the long term and across the board ...
Consumers will soon be able to find the product seal of the Tierwohl (ITW) initiative on the majority of pork and poultry meat products in the food retail trade. The ITW expects a clearly visible increase in the presence of its seal in the markets. From July 1, 2021, consumers will find processed goods for the first time, such as sausages, with the ITW product seal when shopping in the participating shops as well as online ...